Ring setting



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RING SETTING Filed June 9, 1928 INVENTOR WITNESSES C. Bimnbaum ATTORNEYPatented Get. 8, 1929 1,731,1tit

PATENT OFFICE CHARLES BIRNBAUM, OF N EW' YORK, N. Y.

RING SETTING Application filed June 9, 1928. Serial No. 284,146.

This invention relates to ring settings and more particularly to thattype of ring setting which is pivotally connected to the mount so thatit may be hinged to expose a picture 5 frame or other enclosure.

Heretofore in the manufacture of rings of this character it has beencustomary to assemble the setting and then solder a leaf of the hinge tothe mount. This requires a high degree of skill in order that thesetting may properly fit within the mount and be free to swing on itshinge. With my improved construction the setting or frame carrying thesetting is hinged to a plate which fits within 5 the mount, the plateand the setting frame having aligned sleeves for the reception of apintle so that the parts are insured an acurate assemblage by the mereinsertion of the pintle after the parts are constructed and assembled sothat there is no necessity for soldering the hinge and consequentlythere is no possibility of imperfect results.

lVit-h these and other objects in view, the invention consists incertain novel features 25 of construction and combinations andarrangements of parts which will be more fully hereinafter described andpointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a view in section through aring embodying my invention;

Figure 2 is a plan view of the ring with the setting swung outward;

Figure 3 is a plan view showing the three members of my improved settingwhich together form a complete series of sleeves to re ceive the pintleand hingedly connect them.

All of the views of the drawings are greatly exaggerated for purposes ofillustration as it is of course to be understood that in the manufactureof the ring the parts illustrated will be very small.

1 represents the ring proper having an ob- Y long-shaped open mount 2 orwhich may be represents a plate which fits within the mount .Zand issecured therein in any approved manner, as, for example, by solder. 4represents a picture frame and 5 a. settlng frame,.and this settingframe 5 may support a cameo, stone or other ornament 6.

The setting plate'3 at one edge is provided with a series of spacedsleeves 7 and the setting plate 5 is also provided with a series ofsleeves 8 spaced apart. The picture frame 4 is provided at one edge withsleeves 9 spaced apart, and all of these sleeves 7, 8 and 9 are disposedin alinement, as illustrated in F igure 2, with a pintle or pin 10positioned in the sleeves so as to hingedly connect the several parts ofthe ring.

It is to be observed of course that the plate 3 is sufiicientlydepressed to accommodate the picture frame 4 between the same and thesetting plate 5, and the free edge of said setting plate is snapped intoclosed position by its engagement with the edge of mount 2, as clearlyillustrated at 11.

My invention is directed particularly to the manner of hinging thesetting to the ring mount, and by reason of this construction anabsolute alinement and registration of the several parts is insured sothat a perfect setting is had and the extremely difficult hingesoldering is entirely dispensed with.

Various changes and alterations might be made in the general form of theparts described without departing from my invention and hence I do notlimit myself to the precise details set forth but consider myself atliberty to make suchchanges and alterations as fairly fall within thespirit and scope of, the appended claims.

I claim 1. In combination with a ring having a hollow mount, a platesecured in the mount, a setting, said plate and setting having alinedsleeves at one edge, a pintle in said sleeves, and a picture framelocated between the setting and the plate and having sleeves aliningwith the first mentioned sleeves and also receiving the pintle.

2. In combination with a ring having a hollow mount, a settingassemblage including a plate and a setting, the said setting and platehingedly connected, said plate snugly fitting within the hollow mountand fixedly secured therein.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,this 25th day of May A. D. 1928.

CHARLES BIRNBAUM.

